The expression generally used is victim of persecution.
Happy or Pleased is the opposite for persecuted.
This despot has persecuted our people for too many years!
Jesus. He was cruicified.
refugee
"The man was persecuted for his inability to go to the library once in a while and pick up a dictionary. His punishment? Death by custard."
Afflicted, tormented, persecuted, tortured...
They were persecuted for spreading the true word of God, these blasphemers who didn't believe in Allah (God) feared the word of God given by Muslims and wanted them not to spread through the world
No. Nobody deserves to be persecuted.
The Puritans were persecuted for religious reasons.
Nobody likes to be persecuted.
Judaism was persecuted by the Soviet Union. Jews have been persecuted almost constantly.
today's strident feminists would have been persecuted as witches centuries ago